The Price We Pay for Fighting Pests With Chemicals and Genetic Engineering Mercola
- Discusses “What Could Go Wrong?”
- “3.5 percent of the insects in a laboratory test actually survived to adulthood, despite carrying the lethal gene.”
It was my impression earlier this year that 0.0% of the GE mosquitoes would survive, not 3.5%
They must release new GE mosquitoes frequently (twice a month?) because of the short lifetime
See also VitaminDWiki
- Zika cost-effectiveness calculator - May 2016
study determined that GE mosquitoes were not a cost effective method